PIPER LAURIE, in a mood as fiery as her red hair, walked out on the U-I contract that had won her stardom as mere "decoration" and went to New York "to be an actress." Born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit on Jan. 22, she'd been raised by the studio ever since her family had moved to L.A. U-I execs signed her two months after she finished high school, and dubbed her Piper Laurie (which she hates). That she is an actress, she proved without question as the alcoholic wife in Playhouse 90's "The Days of Wine and Roses."

The article is accompanied by a quarter page black and white photo of Piper sitting on a chair with a bottle of booze in her lap while Cliff Robertson has his left arm around her, looking at her closely as she looks down with an expression of pain on her face.